By Yang Yuan-ting and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writerTaiwan has become free of foot-and-mouth disease and classical swine fever without the need for vaccination, an achievement matched by no other nation, a Council of Agriculture （COA） official said yesterday.
By Yang Yuan-ting and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerGoats would no longer need to be vaccinated against the goat pox virus from Jan. 1, as the nation has successfully contained an outbreak that began in 2008, the Council of Agriculture said yesterday.
VIRAL SPREAD: The latest outbreak has so far affected 39 farms, including 25 chicken farms, 10 duck farms and four goose farms, the Council of Agriculture saidBy Yang Yuan-ting and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
San Francisco, Sept. 26 (CNA) An agricultural delegation from Taiwan has signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase US$576 million worth of wheat from the U.S. states of Idaho and Oregon, according to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Seattle.
New York, Sept. 24 (CNA) An agricultural delegation from Taiwan has signed letters of intent (LOI) with U.S. representatives to purchase more than US$2.6 billion of corn and soybeans from farmers in the states of Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois.